Report 2021-046 Recommendation 10 Responses

Report 2021-046: Proposition 56 Tobacco Tax: The Department of Health Care Services Is Not Adequately Monitoring Provider Payments Funded by Tobacco Taxes (Release Date: November 2022)

Recommendation #10 To: Tax and Fee Administration, California Department of

To provide more accurate information to the public, CDTFA should report on its website the amount of Proposition 56 funds that it actually received beginning with the information it reports for fiscal year 2021-22.

60-Day Agency Response

CDTFA amended the Proposition 56 table on our website (https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/taxes-and-fees/prop-56-summaryrev-and-exp.htm) to include a column that displays the amount of funding transferred to Fund 3319 and amended the Total Amount Received column to include the full transfer amount to Fund 3319 and the expenditure amount from Fund 3304.

California State Auditor's Assessment of 60-Day Status: Fully Implemented

The link CDTFA provided is incorrect, the correct URL is: https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/taxes-and-fees/prop-56-summary-rev-and-exp.htm

The amount of Proposition 56 funds that CDTFA reported that it received in fiscal year 2021-22 differs from the amount that the State Controller reported transferring into CDTFA's account, but it is materially accurate.


All Recommendations in 2021-046

Agency responses received are posted verbatim.